PS Plus: November’s Free Game Lineup

Update: Get a peek at the PS4 Plus lineup in December and January here.

This month we’ve got even more day and date releases into PlayStation Plus including The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on PS4, Frozen Synapse Prime on PS3 and the Hungry Horde on PS Vita. Our members will also receive the delightful Steamworld Dig on PS4, addictive Luftrausers on PS3 and charming Escape Plan on PS Vita.

Our PS4 members will discover what randomly generated evils lie in the basement in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, as well as dig for treasures below a western town populated by robots with Steamworld Dig. For PlayStation 3, our members will receive two types of shooters, Frozen Synapse Prime which requires a strategic mind, and the more arcade-y Luftrausers. Finally, our Vita owners can enjoy the touch-screen puzzler Escape Plan as well as The Hungry Horde, where you’ll try and amass the largest zombie horde possible before the government catches on!

All of these games will be free for Plus members starting today when PlayStation Store updates.

November’s PlayStation Plus Preview

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (PS4 | PS VITA)

Free for PS Plus members
The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey, players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him superhuman abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the ultimate of remakes with an all-new highly efficient game engine, all-new hand-drawn pixel style artwork, highly polished visual effects, all-new soundtrack and audio by Ridiculon, and hundreds upon hundreds of designs, redesigns and re-tuned enhancements by series creator, Edmund McMillen.

Steamworld Dig (PS4 | PS VITA)

Free for PS Plus members
SteamWorld Dig is a platform mining adventure with strong Metroidvanian influences. Take the role of Rusty, a lone mining steambot, as he arrives at an old mining town in great need. Dig your way through the old earth, gaining riches while uncovering the ancient threat that lurks below…

Frozen Synapse Prime (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members
Take on the role of Tactics, leading a small rebel faction to overthrow a powerful corporation controlling the city of Markov Geist. Control an elite strike team of futuristic soldiers from shotgunners and snipers, to grenadiers and machine-gunners in the ultimate turn-based strategy game. Plot paths and issue orders to your units, test your plans and predict your opponent in each turn. Combat plays out on procedural, 3D, destructible and customizable battlefields.

Luftrausers (PS3 | PS VITA)

Free for PS Plus members
The skies will be set aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Select from over 125 combinations of weapons, bodies, and propulsion systems and take to the skies to battle enemy fighter planes, battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores. Bravely volunteer for one of over 100 daring missions and become the most legendary Rauser pilot of all time!

Escape Plan (PS Vita | PS4)

Free for PS Plus members
Escape Plan takes advantage of the PlayStation®Vita system’s multi-touch display, rear touch panel, swipe interfaces and motion sensor, putting the fate of Lil & Laarg in the palm of your hand. Players can swipe, tap, poke, squeeze and slap our hapless heroes and interact with the unique and twisted puzzles of each room. Only you can help them survive before their captor and nemesis, Bakuki, recycles them and turns them into his minions. Swipe as if your life depended on it in this exclusive survival-humor game for the PS Vita system.

The Hungry Horde (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members
Lead a horde of zombies on a manic mission to expand the ranks of the undead and destroy humanity. Battle the clock and attempt to trash the planet in this highly addictive, run-till-you-die zombie rampage – one game and you’ll be “turned”!

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Not even one retail game. Not even a retail game as ancient as Arkham Asylum. The PS+ games are gradually getting worse. At least next month has an actual retail PS4 game, according to the EU blog. (And January doesn’t.) Don’t think sleazily hiding online multiplayer behind a paywall is going to keep me paying for PS+ as the service gets worse.

Kinda hoped we’d be getting the Vita version of Frozen Synapse Prime too, since I’m trying to phase out using my PS3 as much as possible, but if I play it and like it, I’ll probably just buy it on Vita anyway.

Good month!

Not a great month, but a good month.

I especially like how many games are going up on Plus right on release day.

Love Playstation, loved Plus in the past but this is becoming a continual disappointment. Certainly a “Why even bother?” sort of month. You guys could’ve just said, “Hey, since there are so many new games to play this month, we won’t be releasing anything free for Plus this month.” and that would’ve been better than this.

One of the Sony guys on the European blog mentioned some last-minute “dotting of i’s and crossing of t’s.” I imagine that an agreement with one of the developers/publishers was a bit late coming together.

I hope it’s not a pattern, but oh well. I definitely look forward to playing three or four of these. Plus is still the best value in gaming, for me.

We ask about the previous month’s offering because enough time has passed for people to try the games and give their opinions about it. You can offer your feedback on November’s lineup when the December preview comes around :)

You would think with all the new series games coming out this november. games relating to those would be released to encourage those sales. and why not arkham origins if your giving us 2 batmans before. i dont know about this.

You should honestly just try Isaac and Luftrausers. Retail games aren’t magically better than digital games, and those two games are seriously excellent. That on top of Frozen Synapse Prime and Hungry Horde being free on their release date is pretty fantastic.

I think the lineup is fine. In general I’m satisfied with the service provided by my PS+ membership. However I think this recent mess with the IGC release requires an explanation from Sony. This official release should have been made public a week ago. When the video was pulled it raised a lot of questions, most of which have never been addressed. We’re paying customers. Complaints about the games added to IGC are fine to ignore. Everyone has their own tastes and so you can’t please everyone all the time. However this mess is a customer relations failure that needs to be addressed.

Hey I’m not complaining or anything, since I’m looking forward to picking up SteamWorld Dig and trying out Luftrausers/ Escape Plan, but these are the same exact ones that were shown in the video that was removed last week. So my question is why did you guys wait to officially announce the games, considering they are the same? It just created a whole lot of unnecessary mystery about them.

With a massive PS3 collection to choose from , you go with 2 small titles. Those are the kind of titles you throw in WITH a big title. “Hey I got Tomb Raider this month. YES! oh and they also gave me a indie game, cool.” There are a thousand old “BIG” games that you could have thrown in…oh wait.. no you want us to pay $4.99 on playstation now and only play it for 4 hrs. NOT cool Sony.

Regret renewing my subscription, since june all the offerings are either indies or retail game that just got sale for 5$ a month before release in ps plus igc. At first i loved indie games but every month is just unacceptable. The good news is, after I finished all my AAA games from 2 years ago, not gonna subscribe again.